{"title":"Industrial Relations in the Republic of Ireland","authors":"P. Brosnan","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V6I3.2524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V6I3.2524","url":null,"abstract":"The Republic of Ireland and New Zealand are alike in many respects. They have similar-sized populations and similar climates; agriculture has an unusual prominence in their national economies and industrial development is strongly encouraged. In addition, both were once British colonies and have similar legal and political systems with English as their majority language. Despite these, and many other similarities, the two countries have markedly different industrial relations systems. In contrast to New Zealand's state-regulated system, the Irish system is notably voluntaristic, multi-unionism is the norm and Irish unions compete for membership with British-based unions. There are many other differences and this paper highlights the main aspects of the Irish system, covering the collective bargaining system, the union and employer organisations, legislation, Ireland's experience with national pay agreements, participation in management, picketing policy, union restructuring and public sector industrial relations.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128135353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The authorising roles of public institutions in job creation and training: legitimating New Zealand employment policy 1980 - 1985","authors":"M. O'Connor","doi":"10.26686/nzjir.v11i2.3590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/nzjir.v11i2.3590","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the roles of central and local goven1ment public sector institutions in conferring and denying ideological legitimacy to alternative job creation and training strategies. The past decade has seen numerous changes in employment policy direction. In all cases the policy changes have been accompanied by the promulgation of rhetorical information proclaiming why and how they represent rational and appropriate responses to identified problems. There has in fact been no general consensus on priorities nor on the best means to achieve objectives. Institutional power to authorise particular policy rationales therefore is of paramount importance in determining what forms support for employment initiatives are able to take. Through a review of the past decade of the public sector special employment programmes, this paper traces and interprets the dynamics of this coercive political process, and its part in wider social change in New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115865176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unions and Union Membership in New Zealand: Annual Review for 1994","authors":"R. Harbridge, K. Hince, Anthony Honeybone","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V20I2.3269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V20I2.3269","url":null,"abstract":"This note reports our n1ost recent survey of unions and union membership in New Zealand for the year ended 31 December 1994. It builds on our earlier surveys for the 31 December years for 1991, 1992 and 1993 (Harbridge and Hince, 1993a, 1993b; Harbridge, Hince and Honeybone. 1994). In last year's report, we suggested that union decline may have \"bottomed out\". The 1994 data does not support that suggestion. Unions have lost a further 33,000 men1bers in the most recent year, while the nun1ber of unions operating has increased by 15.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134020435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The unintended consequences of the arbitration system","authors":"Pat Walsh, G. Fougere","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V12I3.3622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V12I3.3622","url":null,"abstract":"Eight years ago Jim Holt, Erik Olssen and the two authors of this paper met together over a long and relaxed dinner. Jim was in Christchurch to work on the McCullough diaries as it turned out, an important source in writing. Compulsory arbitration in New Zealand. Erik Oissen was doing parallel work on the Red Feds. Pat Walsh, as an analyst of industrial relations had a direct interest in labour history while Geoff Fougere's interest lay more generally in New Zealand political economy. At different times all four of us had been graduate students in the United States. The mix of shared and differing interests made for a pleasurable evening. Talk ranged widely over issues in New Zealand society, relationships between social science and history and the peculiarities of New Zealand academic life. In its own way, this paper is a continuation of that conversation.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134223857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reasons given for being unemployed and the job search progress","authors":"B. Hesketh, G. Shouksmith","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V7I2.3518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V7I2.3518","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines whether the reasons given for being unemployed and for getting a previous job differentiate between those who later obtain jobs and those who remain unemployed. Initial interviews were carried out with 82 registered unemployed, 51 of whom participated in a follow-up one month later. Those who initially blamed their unemployment on a lack of jobs and who thought that success in the past was due to their own effort, were found to be more likely to obtain jobs. The dilemma of an active job search strategy which produces feelings of low well-being, but also a greater likelihood of obtaining work is discussed. Suggestions are given for ways of handling the conflict.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128950115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An adequate minimum code: a basis for freedom, justice and efficiency in the labour market","authors":"P. Brosnan, David Rea","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V16I2.3105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V16I2.3105","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the case for expanding and improving the minimum code of employment protections. A framework is developed for u.nderstanding the various \"floors\" which provide protection for individuals within society. It is then argued that recent changes to these protections, in particular the Employment Contracts Act and the decline in social welfare entitlements, have left many people vulnerable to exploitation and poverty. Strengthening the minimum code provides a solution to this problem. A better level of basic protections are also a spur to productivity. The paper argues that an adequate minimum code encourages a more efficient use of labour.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132545038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unemployment and redundancy: a union viewpoint","authors":"R. Campbell","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V7I3.3522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V7I3.3522","url":null,"abstract":"The fact that unemployment and the threat of unemployment are two of the major issues facing unions was underlined by an historic first joint conference convened in August 1981 by the Federation of Labour and the Combined State Unions. The present level of unemployment, and the magnitude of potential changes in the labour market over the next decade or so, pose challenges to union organisation just as great as the more immediate problems of maintaining wages levels and working conditions. Since that Conference there has been a series of industrial disputes over aspects of job security both in the private and in the state and local body sectors.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115440224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trends in official union membership : 1983- 1985","authors":"R. Harbridge, S. Webber","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V12I2.3608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V12I2.3608","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines union membership statistics for the period of voluntary unionism in 1984-85. It shows that large unions. lost proportionally more members than small unions that female-intensive unions did not lose a dispoprotionately high number of members and that employer deduction of union fees was a key factor in membership retention.","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115768640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Voluntarism in occupational health and safety: a reply to Farlow","authors":"Elizabeth A. Mullen","doi":"10.26686/nzjir.v16i2.3110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/nzjir.v16i2.3110","url":null,"abstract":"The serious allegations made by Farlow as to the integrity of this study cannot be allowed to go by without comment. The study and general criticisms which relate to the sample, choice of variables and the findings are briefly dealt with. The main comments in this reply are directed at the 3 more specific issues which appear to be the real concern of the Federation, namely, worker participation, trade union input and interpretation of the aims of the Code of Practice for health and representatives and health and safety committees (1987).","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124250401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conflict in Papua New Guinea Mining: The 1993-95 Porgera Dispute","authors":"B. Imbun, Richard Morris","doi":"10.26686/NZJIR.V20I3.3276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26686/NZJIR.V20I3.3276","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines and assesses the significance of a recent major dispute in the Papua New Guinea (PN~G) mining industry. The Porgera dispute lasted a year and a half and arguably crystallised a new departure in industrial relations in an industry which is the largest single source of private sector en1ployment and export earnings. Although the official eulogies of PN~G as a \"n1ountain of gold floating in a sea of oil'' are somewhat exaggerated, the role of mining is paran1ount in what is basically, for 85 percent of the population, a subsistence agriculture economy. In 1993, mining provided 88 percent of the country's export earnings. At the srune time about one-third of PNG's formal sector workforce were employed in mining. 1 Without going into elaborate definitional issues, we argue that, despite imperfections in its institutions, the recent Porgera dispute is evidence of a strengthening of .. pluralism\" (understood in terms of collaborative bargaining and compromise in dispute managen1ent), in PNG industrial relations. 2","PeriodicalId":365392,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand journal of industrial relations","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124504238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}